Possible to override beat.hostname in local metricbeat

[stefws (Steffen Winther Sørensen)]

I wondered if I could override default value of beat.hostname in metricbeat.yml as I have classing short hostnames?

[ruflin]

Hostname can't be overwritten but you can overwrite beat.name (in the config under name ) for this purpose.

[stefws (Steffen Winther Sørensen)]

Yes already done that, it's just because we use hostname in a grafana template

[ruflin]

Hehe, what about changing the Grafana template?

[stefws (Steffen Winther Sørensen)]

Also changed Grafana template to use beat.name, but as events already are parsing through logstash also changed hostnames by:

mutate {
  replace => { '[beat][hostname]' => "%{[beat][name]}" }
}